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woodbutcher · July 26th, 2004, 02:39 PM

I'm working on a Asus A7V8X board that has 2 / two channel IDE connections (standard) as well as the RAID which is a single channel / RAID 0 or Raid 1 but not both. Raid has three connections, 1 Std. IDE plus 2 SATA / Primary and Secondary for a total of 3 conn.

If I understand this type of RAID correctly it looks like I CANNOT boot with a single drive (has to be an array) using the Std. IDE on the RAID channel?
I thought that was possible?
I wanted to use the primary and secondary IDE channels for other devices.

I tried to install the boot drive (installed on primary) using the single RAID Std. IDE, changed my boot options and enabled onboard ATA in BIOS. The Fastrack 376 was installed with (F6) the OS - Win XP and allows me into the RAID BIOS but none of the available options can be keyed or changed. It shows the Segate HD correctly.
I keep receiving the boot failure message if I don't open the RAID BIOS (Ctrl + F)

WB

John Prophet · July 26th, 2004, 02:50 PM

hmm, I am looking in the manual and on the website and I dont see any reference to it being raid....u got a link for the board?

John Prophet · July 26th, 2004, 02:55 PM

Ok, I see now it says

Flexible Serial ATA (optional) Promise®: controller supports one ATA133 and two serial ATA connectors

RAID (optional) RAID 0 support by two to three Parallel ATA or Serial ATA connectors. RAID 1 support by two Parallel or Serial ATA connectors.

Idigguns · July 26th, 2004, 03:16 PM

What's your boot order?

John Prophet · July 26th, 2004, 03:19 PM

I found it in the manual..section 5...

but I didnt see any blurbs about using single drives...did see that the drives must be jumpered as master and it mentioned not to use cdroms etc....

I know usually you can run a single drive off of a raid IDE port....

Idigguns · July 26th, 2004, 03:21 PM

"I know usually you can run a single drive off of a raid IDE port...."

That is my understanding, as well.

John Prophet · July 26th, 2004, 03:24 PM

but I guess the q is "can he BOOT off of it"....I suppose it is just a matter of digging thru the bios itself looking for all the options

Idigguns · July 26th, 2004, 03:28 PM

Well, I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe, and I remember when I first put it together I was having lots of problems booting off the disk that I wanted. It kept wanting to boot off the wrong disk. I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but I think it had something to do with the boot order. That's why I was wondering what his boot order was. I wish I could remember how I fixed it

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woodbutcher · July 26th, 2004, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Idigguns

"I know usually you can run a single drive off of a raid IDE port...."

That is my understanding, as well.

Thats what I thought.
I put the drive back on IDE 1, checked Device manager and Fastrack 376 is listed and working properly (with latest drivers).
Theres also a listing under Disk Drives for SCSI Disk Device, that seems to be OK.
I do have a another identical drive hooked up as a single master to see if it would show in win explorer but it does not.

First boot device is Onboard ATA Device.

WB

John Prophet · July 26th, 2004, 03:39 PM

well the boot order would have to be with the raid first wouldnt it?

or scsi, or however they list the raid